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Anabolic: the constructive change from food material to animal tissue: see katabolic.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Violent emotions of anger, hate, despair and grief, are katabolic, poisonous and harmful; they tear down and destroy life.

From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edson, Milan C.

Geddes and Thomson and others have maintained that the sex-difference is one of metabolism, the ovum being more anabolic, the sperm more katabolic.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

These two classes of external forces, disruptive and constructive, are called katabolic and anabolic.

From The Truth About Woman by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

The medium by which these katabolic changes are set going and controlled is the nervous system.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)